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March 2, 2006

Influences and Beliefs

You probably know the first two :) And though they might be a bit obvious, what can I say? As a kid, they were gods to me.

I believe in meritocracies, the power of ideas, and the value of will. That's what these gentlemen, and their achievements, represent to me - that's what they taught me.

Looking at that now - as a slightly older adult - there's an interesting, consistent polarity (along an entreprenurial axis) between technology vision and creative vision, respectively, that has been attractive to me: Gates v. Jobs and Warnock v. Krause. And though I don't mean, in any way, to diminish the heroes of my youth - who have undeniably proven themselves as adept technocratic giants, agile business leaders and humanitarian luminaries - John Warnock is 10 times the technologist Bill Gates will ever be, and Kai Krause is 10 times the creative visionary Steve Jobs will ever be. What can I say? Success (and even leadership) is not the same as vision.

You are mentioned here.http://www.byteburg.de/betabook/index.html(Under the Time entry)

"Surely if another Bryce crossed my path the way it did with Eric Wenger in Paris, or another Vector Effects with Sree Kotay or another Power Tools with Ben Weiss I might still dabble in this or that area."